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POP3 Email Hosting

What is POP3 Hosting?

Post Office Protocol (POP3) allows users to retrieve email included with their A2 Hosting account through their favorite desktop email software like Outlook, Thunderbird, and Eudora. This easily configurable protocol enables users to download their account's email from their server to their email client software. POP3 allows users to bypass logging into their hosting account each time they need to access their email.

The primary advantage of POP3 mail is that it can free up a substantial amount of an account's space. This stems from POP3 automatically erasing email from the server after it has been downloaded. This is why POP3 is designed for email accounts that are only accessed by one person (or one computer). Users interested in allowing a number of computers or users to download an account's email should use an IMAP email hosting configuration.

A2 Hosting POP3 Email Support

Each shared web hosting, reseller hosting, semi-dedicated hosting and dedicated hosting account at A2 Hosting includes POP3 support. POP3 settings are located in the cPanel control panel under the "Email Accounts" icon. The specific information to set up POP3 can be found under "Configure Mail Client" for each hosted email account.

A2 Hosting also supports POP3S. POP3S is POP3 over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). POP3S provides an encrypted connection for transmission of your email account's username, password and message data. This prevents unwanted parties from reading the email that is transferred. See our Mail Client Settings Knowledgebase article for information on setting up your mail client software for use with POP3S.

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